Instability and reaction-diffusion transport of bacteria

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 777-787

  Lewis, Roland W ^a   Pao, William K S ^a   Yang, Xin She ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advection diffusion; Bacterial transport; Numerical solutions; Random media; Travelling wave

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SOILS;

BACTERIAL TRANSPORT; GEOMATERIALS; SATURATED SOILS; UNSATURATED SOILS;

BACTERIA;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 5444253105     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.718     Document Type: Article

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